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This leader’s loss in one battle is often credited to rival forces’ use of pila soldiers advancing in wedge formation. The popularity of this leader’s image in Victorian Britain led Prince Albert to lend (-5[1])his horses to model for a statue of them in Westminster. (10[1])This leader’s namesake “destruction horizon” refers to a layer of (10[1])ash and scorched earth in the soil left by their army. Before its disappearance, the Ninth Legion were massacred by this leader’s forces on their way to their final defeat at the Battle of Watling Street. (10[3])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[1])the Roman conquest of Britain was unsuccessfully challenged by (10[1])what Queen (10[1])of the Iceni? ■END■ (10[4])

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